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Fast Forward Egyptian Lawmaker Attacked with Shoe for Dining with Israeli Ambassador
Egyptian lawmaker Tawfik Okasha was attacked in parliament on Sunday, with one colleague hurling a shoe at him and others demanding he be suspended after he invited the Israeli ambassador for dinner. Egypt was the first of a handful of Arab countries to recognize Israel with a United States-sponsored 1979 peace accord, but Egyptian attitudes…
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News Donald Trump Gets Clobbered on Israel by GOP Rivals
After appearing only as an extra in the nine previous engagements, Israel took center stage at the Republican debate Houston on Thursday night. Cast for the first time in a leading role, Israel served as a litmus test to ascertain the devotion of the GOP candidates to cherished conservative principles but mainly as a baseball…
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Fast Forward How Iran Deal Battle Forged Unlikely Bond Between Israel Envoy and Black Lawmakers
(JTA) — Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, marked Black History Month by highlighting an unexpected byproduct of the Iran nuclear deal: his closer ties with the Congressional Black Caucus. Last year, Democrats were of course generally consternated that Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu were arguing over the deal — with the president…
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Fast Forward Israel Rabbinate Opposes Western Wall Egalitarian Prayer Plan
Israel’s Chief Rabbinate said it had not agreed to the expanded egalitarian area of the Western Wall on the same day that some 150 male and female Reform rabbis held a prayer service at the site of the expansion. On Thursday afternoon, the Chief Rabbinate Council issued a statement following its monthly meeting demanding the…
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News Reform Programs Aims To Spark ‘Dialogue Not Debate’ on Israel
Reform Rabbis in America scratching their heads over how to handle the Israel debates roiling their synagogues will soon get some guidance. The Central Conference of American Rabbis, the largest American rabbinic organization, is creating a program to aimed to foster civil discourse in Reform congregations. Steven Fox, the chief executive of CCAR, described the…
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News Will Israel’s Plan To Dismantle Iconic Broadcasting Agency Deal Blow to Press Freedom?
The British have their treasured BBC. In the United States it’s NPR and PBS. In Germany it’s ARD. At various points, all these public media pillars have been accused of bias from one side or another of the political spectrum. But none has ever faced the prospect of actually being dismantled. That is the reality…
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Fast Forward President Obama Signs Anti-BDS Bill — Won’t Apply to Settlements
President Barack Obama signed a bill that punishes the BDS campaign against Israel, but said he will not apply a segment that extends protections to West Bank settlements. The Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, aimed at removing unfair barriers to competitive U.S. trade, passed the U.S. House of Representatives in December and…
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Opinion 20 Years After a Bus Bombing, the Inspiration of Two Lives Unlived
My world changed on February 25, 1996. But how it changed a few months later was more important. On February 25, I was just back from a hike in New Haven’s East Rock Park when I got a phone call telling me that Matt Eisenfeld and Sara Duker had been killed in the bombing of…
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